To prove he's a man to Rita, Michael and his nephew Steve Holt compete in the Church And State Fair's annual triathlon. George Sr. tries to scare some at-risk youth, and Tobias tries to help George-Michael's girlfriend Ann to compete in the fairs' "inner beauty" pageant.
Season 3's densest episode: 72 jokes in 27 minutes, anchored on a single sight-gag premise.
Directed by Lev L. Spiro · Written by Ron Weiner
WAR
81.4
Wins Above Replacement
“Notapusy” ranks #24 of 84 Arrested Development episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 84.5 — Elite. The episode packs 72 scored jokes at 2.7 per minute, averaging 7.2 on craft and 7.0 on impact, with Michael landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Narrator: Michael was stunned. He assumed Rita was using the word (bleep) in the American sense, meaning weak or cowardly. In fact, Rita meant it in the British sense, meaning sweet or gentle, as in 'pussycat.'
Narrator Setup/Punchline Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Rita: You're such (bleep).
Rita Misdirection Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Tobias: I'll show them a little T and A. Tobias and Ann.
Tobias Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Gob: I heard the jury's still out on science.
Gob Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Lucille: My God, he's already lost a hand. If he loses a leg, how will we ever get him out of the apartment?
Lucille Dark/Subversive Character Comedy All Jokes — 72 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Lindsay: I only took this nanny job so he'd give me a free divorce, and then marry me, so I'd never have to work again.
Lindsay Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Hope: I've always wanted to make love on a horse.
Hope Cringe/Discomfort Awkward Silence Lindsay: That's so funny, because I can put my leg behind my head.
Lindsay Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Lindsay: Of course. Who wouldn't want to snog the nanny?
Lindsay Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Narrator: Michael had recently fallen bum-over-noggin for a beautiful Englishwoman called Rita.
Narrator Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Michael: Did I say 'snog' again? Oh, bloody hell.
Michael Character Comedy Callback Callback Lindsay: Oh, my God! Did I miss a call?
Lindsay Reaction Beat Character Comedy Michael: God, is that how I look?
Michael: You're right. Do not answer that.
Michael Reaction Beat Character Comedy Michael: I wasn't hurrying to come stop you. I was out on for my daily, uh...
Michael Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Rita: I was in the Olympics once. I won a silver medal.
Rita Setup/Punchline Misdirection ★ Rewatch Michael: And the silver medal. Yes, and you came in second.
Michael Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Michael: But you take my breath away.
Michael Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Rita: You're such (bleep).
Rita Misdirection Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Narrator: Michael was stunned. He assumed Rita was using the word (bleep) in the American sense, meaning weak or cowardly. In fact, Rita meant it in the British sense, meaning sweet or gentle, as in 'pussycat.'
Narrator Setup/Punchline Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Movie character: Fighting for your country-- you're such a pussy.
Movie character: When I miss your lips, I'll put a (bleep) in my mouth and think of you.
Narrator: That also had a different meaning over there.
Narrator Callback Deadpan/Understatement Callback George Michael: But we're not good at that stuff.
Narrator: In fact, the only thing George Michael really liked was hanging motionless from the monkey bars. Which the President's Council on Fitness ranks as 'slightly easier than the slide.'
Narrator Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Michael Running Gag Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Michael: No, I know her name's not Annabelle. That's how I remember her name, 'cause her body's kind of shaped like a...
Michael Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Michael: She's the belle of the ball.
Michael Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Michael: She's... she running the lights or something?
Michael Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort George Michael: Well, it's half. It's at the State Fair, which this year is gonna be a Church and State Fair.
Maeby: There's no such thing as an inner beauty pageant. They're just gonna pick the chick with the best T and A.
Maeby Observational Character Comedy Narrator: As a child, Maeby had been entered into a number of progressive pageants that claimed to celebrate beauty in all its forms. But the winners still tended to have it 'going on' in the conventional sense.
Narrator Observational Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Lindsay: I don't know where that hair of yours came from. Shameless Plugs, on Placentia. Looks pretty good, huh? And they're not licensed, which means big savings.
Maeby: I'm guessing 'have sex', but that's meeting you more than halfway.
Maeby Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Tobias: I'll show them a little T and A. Tobias and Ann.
Tobias Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback George Michael: Yeah, I think you just did.
Gob: I heard the jury's still out on science.
Gob Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Gob: Come on. I lie to yours all the time.
Gob Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Gob: Second place is someone weird usually, like a Chinese girl or a geologist.
Gob Character Comedy Observational Gob: So I step in and, uh, lay her crown upon my sweet head.
Michael: Have I missed this euphemism?
Michael Reaction Beat Meta/Self-Referential Michael: You know, uh, you got to stop saying your name all the time.
Michael Character Comedy Observational Callback Steve Holt · Narrator: Only for a wimp, a wuss, a (bleep). And Steve didn't mean pussycat.
Steve Holt · Michael · Narrator: Uncle Mike! Steve Holt! Both men felt good about themselves. Uncle Mike! Steve Holt! But Gob didn't share their enthusiasm.
Gob: So this is how Michael gets rid of my son? By stealing him? Well, I'll just have to steal something of his. Like, say, his bicycle. As a... placeholder.
Gob Character Comedy Absurdist Michael: Oh, I can't believe I chose this moment to call you.
Michael Physical/Slapstick Cringe/Discomfort Maeby Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Maeby: Just watch, Surely's inner beauty will get trumped by her outer icky.
Maeby Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Narrator: It had been purchased for her at a charity auction she'd attended as a studio executive, $10,000 by Jamie Kennedy.
Narrator Absurdist Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Callback Jamie Kennedy: But I'm not putting you in my remake of A Thoroughly Polite Dustup.
Lucille: My God, he's already lost a hand. If he loses a leg, how will we ever get him out of the apartment?
Lucille Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Lucille · Buster: Where's your hand? Oh, it got stuck in the prize hole again. I told you not to play that stupid game anymore. Ah! There goes number three.
George Sr. · Michael: You'll do anything to get out of (bleep) in this apartment. Ah, you're drunk.
Buster: 'At Risk Male Youth.' That spells 'Army.'
Buster Wordplay/Pun Observational ★ Rewatch Narrator: And that's when Buster discovered a recruiting pool the government had been fishing for years.
Narrator Dark/Subversive Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Narrator: Actually, Lucille went down faster.
Maeby: Have sex with this girl right now. Do it, go. Get in there. Have some sex with her right now. I didn't think so.
Maeby Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Fitness instructor: You can control your bladder when you're dead. No blood, no oil! There's no 'I' in 'win.'
Michael: I thought he was older, and... more manly.
Michael Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Michael: Hey, does anyone know why my handlebars are in my bed?!
Steve Holt: They're, uh, pills filled with oxygen. They keep you from being incontinent. Have one, they're called Oxy-Incontinent.
Maeby: About just as much as Big Bird and the Keebler elves.
Maeby Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy George Sr.: You want to have some guy reach around you in the middle of the night, start messing with your junk?
Audience member: Is he ugly?
Crowd: She can stand! The Lord's blessed her!
Steve Holt: I just thought you wanted to hang out and do guy stuff.
Ann: Outgrown you. That is the term I've been looking for.
Ann Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Ann: Outgrown you. That is the term I've been looking for.
Ann Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Narrator: Of course, they were way older.
Narrator Deadpan/Understatement Observational Michael: Hey, do this with me!
George Sr.: Excuse me. I can't go back, I can't go back!
Narrator: And he decided to escape in the bulletproof one.
Narrator Setup/Punchline Misdirection ★ Rewatch George Sr.: No, no, no, no, no. Come on! I can't go back.
Michael: because I could not take you being away in the Army.
Steve Holt · Michael: I think I'm gonna go get one of those corn dog crosses. With all the 'crucifixins'?
Rita · Narrator: You're a complete and utter... (bleep) I can't believe we had to bleep that. It would have been such a nice moment.
George Sr.: Thank God I wasn't in the Humvee.
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